Other than a marketing blitz, Microsoft engages in confusing marketing slogans (“Free the People”).
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Red Hat’s CEO Never Talked to Microsoft About Software Patents
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Red Hat's CEO reveals that he was never involved in negotiating non-technical (anti-competitive) deals.
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Microsoft to ODF Technical Committee: Come Enter the Belly of the Beast
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Microsoft is suddenly trying to bring over the core of ODF over to Redmond
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Bill Gates, in other people's words
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A sampling of comments about the Microsoft co-founder — some friendly, some not so much
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A Microsoft sob story
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This unhappy tale brought tears to my eyes...tears of laughter: The continuing saga of Billy Goats and Steve Ballsup. Are these two for real?
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Antitrust regulators scrutinizing Windows 7, IE 8
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Antitrust regulators are evaluating the forthcoming Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 as part of ongoing activities to ensure Microsoft is in compliance with the final judgment in two landmark antitrust cases that involved individual states and the U.S. government.
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Microsoft’s Open Source Land Grab Continues
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Microsoft's continued escapades with the Free/Open Source software world
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Microsoft to developers: ‘Open source is a choice’
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At the Cebu open source summit, Microsoft was telling developers it is ready to help them go "primetime."
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Microsoft: We were naivé about standards. No, really!
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I have to contradict that. When I served on the W3C Patent Policy Board, about 8 years ago, there was a Microsoft representative on the board...The representative seemed fully cognizant of the standards process.
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Simon Phipps Has No Idea How Badly Sun ”Screwed Up“
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A couple of days ago, Simon Phipps from Sun Microsystems said that the company ”screwed up“ when it comes to open source. Dana Blankenhorn opines that Sun is still screwing up. Here is the core of his argument.
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Microsoft Becomes An Open Source Partner...Kinda
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Industry analysts are scratching their heads after Microsoft recently decided to join a project measuring how people are using open source software. The Open Source Census is run by OpenLogic, a company that aims to help organisations obtain, use and control open source software -- programs where the underlying code is open to everyone to see and to share ideas on improving it.
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Microsoft Goes Fighting GNU/Linux in Open Source Conference
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Microsoft goes to an open source conference, blends in, and invites developers.
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No Regrets at Microsoft After Abuses, ODF Still Snubbed
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There is no apparent plan for ODF support in Office 2008; Microsoft's documentation claimed full of defects.
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Patents Roundup: Good News, Bad News
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Many stories about software patents make an appearance at the moment (it's clearly a hot topic) and there's little time to expand on them, so here is just a sample of news worth reading if you care about the legal fight against Free software.
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Microsoft Tightens Grip in Africa with Memorandum of Anti-competition
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Microsoft seems to be on a Memorandum of Understanding crusade at the moment.
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